. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. 236 NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS A showy grass, but too hard to be eaten by stock. Fre- quent in light soil. July—August. VILFA VAG-IN-anFLORA, Torr-{Southern Poverty Grass). Annual, culms slender, 6-12 inches high, leaves, convolute, awl-shaped, 1-4 inches long. Panicle single and spiked, the lateral and often the terminal concealed in Growing in the poorest places, and in the streets of Nash- ville. CINNA ARUNDIHACEA, L— {Indian Meed.) Spikelets, one flowered much flattened, crowded in an ope
. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. 236 NATIVE FORAGE PLANTS A showy grass, but too hard to be eaten by stock. Fre- quent in light soil. July—August. VILFA VAG-IN-anFLORA, Torr-{Southern Poverty Grass). Annual, culms slender, 6-12 inches high, leaves, convolute, awl-shaped, 1-4 inches long. Panicle single and spiked, the lateral and often the terminal concealed in Growing in the poorest places, and in the streets of Nash- ville. CINNA ARUNDIHACEA, L— {Indian Meed.) Spikelets, one flowered much flattened, crowded in an open flaccid panicle, glumes lanceolate, acute, strongly keeled. Flower manifest- ly stalked in the glumes, smooth and naked; the palets much like the glumes, the lower longer than the upper, short, awned or mucronate on the back. A tall, sweet-scented grass, with ample terminal panicle. Damp woods. Flowering and fruiting, July to October. Worthless. AGROSTIS CANINA—L. Brown Bent-Grass. Has an erect, slender, spreading panicle i creeping, perennial root; slender, erect stem; and linear leaves; glomes longer than the palea. a bent awn on the palea; greenish spikelets, afterwards turning brown, whence its name; flower but one in a spikelet; open panicle; • stamens three. It is a native of Europe, but intro- duced into the United States where it now is occasionally found in meadows. It flowers in middle summer, and is of no agricultural value. A variety of it (Agrostis Rupestris, Chapman) occurs in the higher Alleghany mountains, where it is Agrostis Ctmina,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Killebrew, J. B. (Joseph Buckner), 1831-1906. Nashville, The American co.
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